Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.